Security of Home Automation Systems – A Status Quo Analysis For Austrian Households

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Presented at DEEPSEC 2020 by

Edith Huber

Albert Treytl

Home Automation System (HAS) are a growing market, which is very diverse ranging from consumer electronics like TVs, mobile phones and gaming consoles via WLAN connected sensors, power plugs or lightbulbs to building automation devices for HVAC systems  or access solutions. Beside "classical" network technologies IoT technologies gain increasing spread and importance.This paper presents results of a representative survey analyzing the security awareness and perception as well as susceptibility to cybercrime of HAS users in Austria. The aim of this survey is to investigate the spread of the device types, cybercrime attacks and security risks.These results are compared with technical vulnerabilities of such devices to identify relevant security risks and countermeasures.Additionally, a concept to protect sensor values directly in the analog circuit is presented as an outlook to ongoing research.